Button-fastener



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E. 0. ELY.

- BUTTON FASTENER.

No. 312,986. Patented Feb. 24, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD O. ELY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE PENIN- SULAR NOVELTY COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,986, dated February 24, 1885.

Application filed September 10, 1884. (N model To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD O. ELY, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Mas sachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Fasteners, of which the following dc scription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, likeletters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to that class of button-fasteners having two prongs, thus constituting a staple.

WVire staples for attaching buttons as heretofore made have had semicircular crowns and parallel legs, and have been turned both in ward and outward when clinched at the inner side of the material, and the inwardlyturned prongs have been made to lap one part over the other.

In my efforts to provide a strong fastener, one easily applied, and taking up but little space at the inner side of the material, I have produced a staplelike fastener, the legs of which have a preliminary inward bend at the point which is to define the size of the head and staple-eye above the upper side of the material, the ends of the legs being beveled inwardly, which, in connection with the preliminary bend referred to, insures the positive inward turning of the legs of the staple for of the fastener being turned upward into the material nearly end to end, as will be described.

Figure 1 in elevation represents a fastener made in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 shows one of my improved fasteners as holding a button in place.

The staple sis made from wire, either round or flat, bent at its center to form a crown, 2, a V-shaped head part, 3, and legs 4, the said legs being inwardly beveled at 5 5, and having a preliminary inward bend, as at 6, between the legs and the head portions.

The fastener, inserted through the eye a of the button 12, is driven into the material m,

defined and equal distances, the ends or points ward each other, and the staple bends at the point where the preliminary bends 6 6 fall, and the legs,from the preliminary bends downward to their points, are curled inward and upward, their ends being made to enter the under side of the material end to end in the same line substantially as in Fig. 2, where it will be noticed that the points of the legs lie in the same line and are turned in the material, so that the stocking or other fibrous article or flesh cannot catch under either point.

Olinching the legs, as shown and described, throws the strain of the buttons on the material in the line of the center of the fastener, and leaves a large head above the material to receive the eye of the button, the latter moving loosely in the eye of the head, the size of the eye in the head and the distance which the head shall project beyond the face of the material in which it is inserted depending upon the position of the preliminary bends 6 6.

The V-shaped head and central crown enable the button-eye to move freely on the head of the staple.

I claim The herein-described button-fastener, composed of a staple having a crown, 2, and a V- shaped head, 3, and legs at, the fastener having preliminary inward bends at 6, the points of the legs beinginwardly beveled to insure the inward turning of the legs, while the preliminary bends insure like and measured bends in the legs and determine the size of the eye in the head of the fastener, all substantially as described. I

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWVARD O. ELY.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, B. J. NoYEs. 

